Quotes About Justice

Ultimately, all executions are political. Their exercise is arbitrary, often capricious, and irrevocable.

What perished with their cultures were their unique ideas of what it meant to be courteous, reverent, courageous, and just. What disappeared with them were their thoughts about what could be expected to be going on in the places into which we cannot see. As our own cultures continue to unfold around the riptides of aggressive commerce and heedless development, it seems these thoughts might have been good things to have made note of.

if, in measuring our love, we feel anger, I think we have a further obligation. It is to develop a hard and focused anger at what continues to be done to the land not so that people can survive, but so that a relatively few people can amass wealth.

The ideal legal system, mused Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo, "would be a code at once so flexible and so minute, as to supply in advance for every conceivable situation the just and fitting rule.

Useful thing a warrant. Murder and theft change their names if you have one.

Justice is a mighty fine thing.

Justice is less easily applied to the strong than to the defenseless.

the truth that people should prefer to suffer injustice than commit it, that they should actually be good instead of simply seeming to be.

You may think God is justified in his anger. But having infants dashed to pieces and pregnant mothers ripped open?

law of retaliation, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," is "interwoven with injustice," since, as Ptolemy points out, "the one who is second to act unjustly still acts unjustly, differing only in the relative order in which he acts, and committing the very same act

You ought to sue that son of a whore

I'm a defense lawyer, son. I can believe anything.

Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.

Bad people need to pay a price. And the price should be high. ~Billy Summers

There's really no just about it, is there?

I discovered something that night that most people never have to learn: murder is sin, murder is damnation (surely of one's own mind and spirit, even if the atheists are right and there is no afterlife), but murder is also work.

This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." In

Much of their data was unique because it could come only from experiments in which human beings were made to suffer or die. That made Blome a valuable target—but a target for what? Justice cried out for his punishment. From a U.S. Army base in Maryland, however, came an audaciously contrary idea: instead of hanging Blome, let's hire him.

SHOULD EVERYONE WHO helped run the Nazi machine be prosecuted for war crimes, or could some be brought to work for the U.S. government instead?

Thus did the man responsible for directing the dissection of thousands of living prisoners during wartime, along with those who worked with him, escape punishment. Unlike their German counterparts, however, they were not brought to the United States. Instead the Japanese scientists were installed at laboratories and detention centers in East Asia. There they helped Americans conceive and carry out experiments on human subjects that could not be legally conducted in the United States.

While the Americans protected veterans of Unit 731, the Soviets captured twelve of them and charged them with war crimes. All were convicted and given prison terms ranging from two to twenty-five years. Their trials were not widely publicized.

All that this country desires is that the other republics on this continent shall be happy and prosperous," Theodore Roosevelt declared, "and they cannot be happy and prosperous unless they maintain order within their boundaries and behave with a just regard for their obligations toward outsiders.